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- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France, conducted with French professors Céline Braconnier and Jean-Yves Dormagen, the researchers examined the difficulties citizens had in registering to vote in the French presidential election of 2012. Door-to-door...
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- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
shift in political power” It’s important to make clear as well that this tax plan also constrains the government in another substantial way that is only now becoming commonly discussed: future spending cuts. Claims that these tax changes...
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by Matthew Weinzierl
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak...
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by Kim Girard
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World...
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by William R. Kerr
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided...
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by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation, ushering in a View Details
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by Dante Roscini
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
commercial brand become a political brand? Is the commercial Trump brand extendable into the political arena? Commercial marketing and political marketing differ in two...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
come from the mistakenly named "bottom" up, from faculty at the top of their fields. Having an institutional structure to support this is rare anywhere, and in Chinese universities today it is rarer still. Can world-class universities exist in a View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'...
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by Staff
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive system, as currently operated, contributes to unsustainable environmental damage and resource depletion....
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by Garry Emmons
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
I appreciate the efforts, but if we wanted to really think structurally about it, I would think about all those things. Silverthorne: Let's talk a little bit about the tax as a political document, versus a document meant to create...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
beliefs that they share are different.” Bowlweevils, injecting a political note into a discussion intended to deal with economics, argued that Germany has no model for dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers. As he put it, “Germany ......
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by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
will press for for a new independence referendum and, if successful, will seek to join the EU. British businesses with substantial EU interests might then relocate from England to Scotland. The referendum was a bad political move. No...
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by John Quelch
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
administration as Bush's third term. But he and his advisers managed the political chess board brilliantly. Early on, he anticipated and defused negative criticisms by admitting to past indiscretions in his autobiography. His campaign...
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by John Quelch
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the...
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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
sequencing and a sustained effort, you don't make progress. Our single-issue focus lately works against us. There's also a tremendous mismatch between the time horizons of politics and of competitiveness. Most things that matter for...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
the International Economy, suggested that companies in Africa should also lobby the political system in an open, public manner. "It turns into corruption when it's secretive," Spar said. "Lobbying for specific favors also...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't...
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by Jim Aisner
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
by companies to reduce the threat of politically slanted negative press, focusing on FNC and the 2000 presidential election. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational costs for firms" The...
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